Let me start with something honest: I didn’t always get AI.
A few years ago, when people talked about machine learning and neural networks, my eyes glazed over like everyone else’s. Too abstract. Too technical. Felt like something for engineers at Google, not for someone with a business degree from Cologne who spent his evenings reading about supply chain management.
Then something shifted. I started actually using the tools. And I realized that the gap between what AI can do and what most people know about it is enormous – and almost entirely unnecessary.
That gap is why this site exists.
Who I Am
My name is Christoph Schulz. I’m from Germany, Cologne, and I’ve spent most of my career at the intersection of business and technology.
I studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne and then did my Master’s at RWTH Aachen – one of Germany’s top technical universities – with a focus on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing. My thesis was on organizational error reporting, which sounds dry until you realize it’s really about how people and systems learn from mistakes. That topic has stayed with me.
After university I worked in financial services, then in retail management, and for the past few years I’ve been working in the financial services industry – first in project management, then increasingly in digital transformation and AI. Today I work as a Referant for Digitalisation and AI in Business Transformation, helping a major financial services organization figure out how to integrate AI into real business processes.
That work – sitting at the table where strategy meets implementation, watching what actually works and what doesn’t when organisations try to adopt AI – shapes almost everything I write here. I’m not theorising about AI from the outside. I’m working with it every day.
Parallel to that, I’m studying Computer Science – because I got tired of being the person in the room who understood the business case but couldn’t talk to the engineers. That gap frustrated me, so I decided to close it.
Why I Started LearnAI24
The more I got into AI, the more I noticed a pattern: most content about it falls into one of two buckets. Either it’s deeply technical – papers, documentation, GitHub repositories that assume you already know what a transformer architecture is. Or it’s surface-level hype – breathless headlines about AI taking over the world, not much practical guidance.
What I kept looking for, and rarely finding, was content that sat in the middle. Clear, specific, practical – written for someone who is intelligent and capable, but hasn’t spent the last five years in a machine learning lab.
That’s the person I write for. Because that was me, two years ago.
What This Site Is (and Isn’t)
LearnAI24 is not a news site. I’m not trying to cover every AI development as it happens – that’s a full-time job and there are people doing it better than I could.
What I focus on instead: the things that are actually useful to know. How to use specific tools effectively. What concepts you actually need to understand to navigate this space. How AI is changing the way real professionals work in real jobs. The questions my colleagues, friends, and family keep asking me.
I write the way I’d explain something to a smart friend who hasn’t been following AI closely. No unnecessary jargon. No condescension. No oversimplification either – I think most people can handle real information if it’s presented clearly.
My Approach to AI
I’m neither an AI evangelist nor a skeptic. Both positions seem intellectually lazy to me.
The honest view, as I see it: AI is a genuinely significant technology that is changing how we work and communicate. Some of those changes are clearly positive. Some raise real questions that deserve serious thought. Most of the day-to-day reality is less dramatic than either the enthusiasts or the critics suggest – it’s a set of tools that are sometimes very useful, sometimes overhyped, and always changing.
My goal is to help you navigate that reality practically and thoughtfully. Not to convince you AI is the answer to everything. Not to alarm you about things that aren’t worth alarming about. Just to give you the understanding you need to make good decisions about how to use these tools in your own life and work.
A Note on How I Write
I use AI tools in my writing process – it would be strange not to, given what this site is about. I use them for research, for first drafts, for editing. Everything published here is reviewed, edited, and signed off by me. The ideas, the judgments, the editorial choices are mine.
I think that’s a reasonable and honest way to use these tools. If you disagree, I’m genuinely interested in your perspective. The contact details are below.
Get in Touch
If you have a question, a topic you’d like me to cover, or feedback on something I’ve written – I’d like to hear it. You can reach me at the contact page or directly via email.
And if you found something on this site useful: share it with someone who’d benefit. That’s the whole point.
Christoph Schulz
Founder, LearnAI24
Germany